I know what you're thinking. Did he win six electoral votes or only five? Hey, everybody! Donald Trump has a plan to end crime, and like most of his "plans," it sounds exactly like it was thought up by a 14-year-old boy who watches too much TV: Trump's going to
It really can be a block by block thing. Like in Humboldt Park...you've got one set of people on the east side of Humboldt Blvd, and another set on the west side. But everybody rides the same els and buses, so there is lots of diversity out and about during the day.
If this helps, I just visited recently for the first time to visit a friend and I loved it! I never felt unsafe. The only thing unsettling was the stickers with a gun encircled in red with a red line through it on most business entrances. I get it, "no guns allowed", but Chicago isn't open carry. Just a reminder not to?
That is a reeeeeaaaalllll big boogey that Billo is stretching out of his nose there.
More on topic: Chicago is home to perhaps the most Gestapo-like police force in the U.S. They routinely disappear people into their very own black sites, for Chrissake. They are, if anything, a resounding example of how totalitarian police tactics don't work.
Ah...the old water-boarding the debate. That should be the easiest thing in the world to solve. Water-boarding is torture, but it's not lethal. So any politician or news 'talking head' who wants to argue that it isn't torture, and it's just 'dunking someone's head underwater', could very persuasively make their point by volunteering to be water-boarded.
As far as I know, only one commentator has done that, and he immediately changed his mind and now says that, yeah, it's torture.
That's not just smart-alec talk either. Where I'm from (the western half of the island of misfit mascots, AKA australia), part of cop-training for some divisions of the police involves getting your TASER accreditation. And part of getting your TASER accreditation involves...lining up and getting TASERed:-)
Now the videos of trainee cops lining up to get tasered is justification in itself, but it also means that if they're going into a division where they're likely to have to use TASERs on a semi-regular basis, they will at least have an appreciation of the amount of force that they are applying when they taser someone. Makes sense in both directions - helps them judge when perhaps relying on their taser might put their life in danger, and helps them appreciate that it's an extremely high level of force, just one step down from using their gun (i.e. it's not a substitute for 'wait for the guy to calm down', and that whilst it always looks rougher in videos, the '5 cops tackle and sit you' method is preferable to tasering if it's a viable option in the circumstances).
Also helps them appreciate that if the recipient is in poor health or with a heart condition, they could risk killing someone (presumably under circumstances where they didn't actually want to kill the guy).
If someone is going to advocate for something that MIGHT be torture, but isn't lethal, then is it really that unreasonable to expect that they voluntarily develop a similar first-hand appreciation of what it is they are advocating for?
Yeah, but you've got factor in escalation. Police start wearing body armour, crooks start using armour-piercing bullets, etc. Once you start issuing pop culture memes as standard kit, it's only a matter of time before the crooks start packing Licenced to Ill, and even the surviving Beastie Boys don't want to hear their 80s stuff anymore.
Far better to open up a dialogue instead. That way, at worst we'll get Ill Communication, and that album still stands up pretty well.
The soap is hard as a stone, but don't worry about it.
How do we do it? Easy, peasy. Just start issuing these:
That's the thing. Even with their tortureplex, they still have crime
It really can be a block by block thing. Like in Humboldt Park...you've got one set of people on the east side of Humboldt Blvd, and another set on the west side. But everybody rides the same els and buses, so there is lots of diversity out and about during the day.
Put on weight? Have you not seen him?
Unless Jared Leto is in it.
I thought he was casually picking his nose.
If this helps, I just visited recently for the first time to visit a friend and I loved it! I never felt unsafe. The only thing unsettling was the stickers with a gun encircled in red with a red line through it on most business entrances. I get it, "no guns allowed", but Chicago isn't open carry. Just a reminder not to?
That is a reeeeeaaaalllll big boogey that Billo is stretching out of his nose there.
More on topic: Chicago is home to perhaps the most Gestapo-like police force in the U.S. They routinely disappear people into their very own black sites, for Chrissake. They are, if anything, a resounding example of how totalitarian police tactics don't work.
Trump's incorporated 'Spirit' into things so he's building on Duterte!
probably since it's situated in a solidly blue state
I remember watching the first episode in stunned amazement. It was like nothing ever before on television.
Axe-Cop! :D
"The only way to bring the crime figures down, is to reduce the number of offenses...Who hasn't wanted to burn down a large public building?"
Ah...the old water-boarding the debate. That should be the easiest thing in the world to solve. Water-boarding is torture, but it's not lethal. So any politician or news 'talking head' who wants to argue that it isn't torture, and it's just 'dunking someone's head underwater', could very persuasively make their point by volunteering to be water-boarded.
As far as I know, only one commentator has done that, and he immediately changed his mind and now says that, yeah, it's torture.
That's not just smart-alec talk either. Where I'm from (the western half of the island of misfit mascots, AKA australia), part of cop-training for some divisions of the police involves getting your TASER accreditation. And part of getting your TASER accreditation involves...lining up and getting TASERed:-)
Now the videos of trainee cops lining up to get tasered is justification in itself, but it also means that if they're going into a division where they're likely to have to use TASERs on a semi-regular basis, they will at least have an appreciation of the amount of force that they are applying when they taser someone. Makes sense in both directions - helps them judge when perhaps relying on their taser might put their life in danger, and helps them appreciate that it's an extremely high level of force, just one step down from using their gun (i.e. it's not a substitute for 'wait for the guy to calm down', and that whilst it always looks rougher in videos, the '5 cops tackle and sit you' method is preferable to tasering if it's a viable option in the circumstances).
Also helps them appreciate that if the recipient is in poor health or with a heart condition, they could risk killing someone (presumably under circumstances where they didn't actually want to kill the guy).
If someone is going to advocate for something that MIGHT be torture, but isn't lethal, then is it really that unreasonable to expect that they voluntarily develop a similar first-hand appreciation of what it is they are advocating for?
Yeah, but you've got factor in escalation. Police start wearing body armour, crooks start using armour-piercing bullets, etc. Once you start issuing pop culture memes as standard kit, it's only a matter of time before the crooks start packing Licenced to Ill, and even the surviving Beastie Boys don't want to hear their 80s stuff anymore.
Far better to open up a dialogue instead. That way, at worst we'll get Ill Communication, and that album still stands up pretty well.